Over 70,000 Leaving Certificate students will receive their exam results later today, with the overall trend showing fewer top marks awarded, as the impacts of grade deflation continue.

Sinn Féin's finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty has said the cuts in place on fuel excise duty should remain for "as long as they are necessary", adding that they should only increase when international prices begin to fall.

Four men have been arrested after gardaí stopped a vehicle following a "managed containment operation" on the M50 in Dublin yesterday morning.

The CEO of the Children's Rights Alliance has said that it is a concern that one of the five teenagers killed in the M9 crash last weekend was in the care of Tusla.

Irish consumers pay the second highest excise duty on alcohol in Europe, according to new research.